Are Conservatives Less Likely Than Liberals to Accept Welfare? the Psychology of Welfare Politics

A natural field experiment and controlled experiments show that conservatives are less likely than liberals to accept welfare, only when the welfare program does not have a work requirement. Importantly, policymakers can deploy marketing messages to mitigate this effect and boost conservatives' enrollment in such welfare programs. 



Citation:

Shreyans Goenka and Manoj Thomas (2021) ,"Are Conservatives Less Likely Than Liberals to Accept Welfare? the Psychology of Welfare Politics", in NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 49, eds. Tonya Williams Bradford, Anat Keinan, and Matthew Matthew Thomson, Duluth, MN : Association for Consumer Research, Pages: 192-193.

Authors

Shreyans Goenka, Virginia Tech
Manoj Thomas, Cornell



Volume

NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 49 | 2021



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